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was indicted for
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. On the 7th of November, between six and seven in the evening, going by
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; I felt something at my pocket; I turned round and laid hold of the prisoner's hand with my handkerchief in it: I took the handkerchief from him, and charged a constable with him: (the handkerchief was produced in court, and deposed to by the prosecutor.)
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